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Pregnant women hold their medical cards and wait for their turn to be examined at a government hospital on World Population Day in Hyderabad, India, Friday, July 11, 2014. 
Reproductive rights
As India becomes the world’s most populous nation, engaging men in family planning ‘will be a game changer’
Patients and staff members of Marie Stopes International (MSI) Clinic wave to Danish delegation members.
Reproductive rights
Marie Stopes International name change will ‘put a focus on the future’ of reproductive choice, CEO says
Women's March activists participate in a nationwide protest against US President Donald Trump's decision to fill the seat on the Supreme Court left by the passing of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the 2020 election, in Washington, Oct. 17, 2020.
2020 US presidential election
How the US presidential election could impact women’s health worldwide
A woman speaks behind a table
COVID-19
Ugandan archbishop breaks with tradition to promote birth control during pandemic
Women with green bandanas protest in a crowd
Health & Medicine
Abortions rise worldwide when US cuts funding to women’s health clinics, study finds
a close up of an abortion rights activist with purple paint on her face
Abortions rise worldwide when US cuts funding to women’s health clinics, study finds
women wearing colorful saris gather in a circle.
Sexuality
Rural women in India struggle to access contraception. These people are trying to change that.
A woman wearing a yellow shirt holds a toddler in her arms near a mural.
Activists in Kenya challenge abortion ban in court
A young Tanzanian woman speaks to a male doctor.
Development
Tanzanian president bluntly attacks contraception, saying high birth rates are good for economy
A nurse uses a stethoscope to listen for heart problems
Health & Medicine
Women with heart disease in sub-Saharan Africa face fertility risks and social stigma as their greatest challenges
Kenyan women wait to receive family planning and reproductive health services at the Family Health Options Kenya
Culture
Kenyan health providers call Trump’s global gag rule ‘a death sentence’ for women
Chinese boy bundled up. Critics say that the UNFPA has supported coercive abortions of women who tried to have more than one child
Culture
Trump officials say the UN supports coercive abortion in China. But does it?
U.S. President Donald Trump holds up his executive order on the reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy.
Development
What the Mexico City rule means to women around the world
Health & Medicine
New report finds huge barriers for Native Americans needing emergency contraception
Health & Medicine
Maternal mortality in Afghanistan
Abortion Fight in Texas Threatens Women’s Health Care Options
Health & Medicine
Best of the BBC: Maternal mortality worldwide
Rep. Gwen Moore on Planned Parenthood and Her Private Life